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Tag: better choices for the environment

Nothing is ever black and white

Nothing is ever black and white

For a long time I have been hoping to find alternatives for the plastic bags I continue to use. I no longer use the plastic bags in the grocery store, both for fruit and veggies as well as the bigger grocery bags. These were very easy adjustments that did not cost any effort at all. For garbage and doggy poop, I still am using plastic 🙁 Recently I saw true compostable bags from Trader Joe’s which made me very happy….

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another one bites the dust

another one bites the dust

another piece of plastic made abundant and unnecessary. Time and again I am struck by these small innovative companies, how they all have a similar frame of mind (and web site approach) Upbeat, and personal, a “we can do this” frame of mind, a website with information about the impact on the environment of product they want to replace and often some kind of visual feedback of the impact one has with the change of (consuming) behavior. I like it!…

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